Two IE males suspected in jail demise that will likely be investigated as murder

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officers are investigating the deadly stabbing at Calipatria State Prison of a 46-year-old incarcerated gang member from Castaic who was sentenced to demise for his function within the kidnap-murder of a Buena Park businessman.

At roughly 1:23 p.m. Thursday, jail workers noticed Alberto Martinez being struck by one other incarcerated man, Tyler A. Lua, and knocked to the bottom the place Lua continued to hit him. Lua stepped away and two different inmates, Jorge D. Negrete-Larios and Luis J. Beltran, started putting Martinez as he was on the bottom, immobile, in keeping with corrections authorities.

Corrections workers rapidly stopped the incident utilizing pepper spray and one baton strike, jail officers mentioned.

Staff members instantly initiated an emergency response and known as 911. Medical workers carried out life-saving measures on Martinez, who was taken to the jail’s triage and therapy space. At 2:20 p.m. Martinez was pronounced dead, corrections authorities mentioned.

Prison officers mentioned Martinez had accidents in line with an incarcerated-manufactured weapon and two such weapons had been discovered on the scene. No workers or extra incarcerated males had been injured.

No data on a motive was obtainable.

Martinez got here to Calipatria on Aug. 17, 2010 and was positioned on condemned standing for first-degree homicide. He was additionally sentenced to life with the potential of parole for tried first-degree homicide with an enhancement for road gang exercise and two years for road gang exercise, to be served concurrent with the condemned sentence.

He had additionally been discovered responsible of conspiracy to commit homicide and road terrorism for being the getaway driver for the Oct. 2, 2002, abduction and slaying of David Montemayor.

The jury additionally discovered true particular circumstance allegations of homicide for monetary achieve, homicide throughout a theft, homicide throughout a kidnapping and homicide to learn a gang.

According to testimony throughout Martinez’s trial in 2010, he and three different gang members had been recruited to kidnap and kill the 44-year-old Montemayor as a result of his sister, Debra Perna, objected to him taking management of the household’s shifting and storage enterprise.

Beltran, 31, got here to Calipatria from Los Angeles County on April 6, 2023 and was sentenced to life with out parole for first-degree homicide with enhancements for the intentional discharge of a firearm inflicting nice bodily damage/demise and possessing/proudly owning a firearm as a felon.